Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification
Latvia has a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.
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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are knowledge, skills and competences acquired during a certain period of learning.

In Latvia, learning outcomes are stipulated by state education standards and occupational standards (for the professional qualifications).

Learning outcomes of higher education are defined by higher education institutions.


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– Able to perform intellectual operations at the level of knowledge, understanding, use and simple analysis.
– Uses knowledge and theoretical understanding in wide-ranging complex activities.
– Able to obtain and evaluate information independently.
– Uses wide-ranging knowledge and skills for the solution of well-formulated, but unknown and unforeseeable problems.
– Has detailed, theoretical knowledge and understanding corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Has wide-ranging skills and proficiency essential for the profession corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Able to perform the work of executor independently, including the planning and supervision of the work to be performed.
– Knows and is able to apply appropriate technologies.
– Able to apply information acquisition and processing technologies in professional activity.
– Latvian language proficiency developed and foreign language(-s) proficiency improved.
– Knows and understands links between historical developments of their county, Latvia, Europe and world.
– Able to apply mathematical knowledge and skills in professional work.
– Able to apply knowledge about the facts and laws of natural sciences in professional activity.
– Able to evaluate the processes occurring in nature and society and comprehend them in their system and development.
– Understands the principle of coherence of ecological space and observes the environmental protection requirements in professional activity.
– Understands the basic principles of market economy.
– Able to find their place in the economic structures of society and able to operate therein.
– Understands the economic relationship between employer and employee and knows the relevant legislation.
– Has a conception of the political structure of the European Union, as well as of the principles of single economic area and the mobility of the labour force.
– Evaluates their abilities adequately.
– Plans activity in compliance with circumstances, possibilities and their abilities.
– Plans time in accordance with task.
– Able to make justified choice and make a decision independently in familiar and less familiar circumstances.
– Able to answer for the quantitative and qualitative result of their professional activities, assumes partial responsibility for the work performed by others.
– Is determined, systematic and rational when working.
– Is careful and accurate.
– Able to assume initiative.

Vehicle Body Repairman

  • Knowledge

    1. The knowledge necessary at the level of notion to perform the basic tasks of professional activity:
    1.1. chemistry (qualities of the substances used in cars and repair works)
    1.2. gluing technologies;
    1.3. repair process organization;
    1.4. basics of commercial activity;
    1.5. basics of ergonomics.
    2. The knowledge necessary at the level of understanding to perform the basic tasks of professional activity:
    2.1. estimated costs of vehicle body repair;
    2.2. basics of work quota setting;
    2.3. preparation and maintenance of the work place;
    2.4. electrical engineering;
    2.5. equipment and tools necessary for car repair;
    2.6. maintenance of equipment and tools;
    2.7. instructional material (metals, plastics, technical liquids, petroleum products, anti-corrosive and noise insulation materials);
    2.8. metal technology;
    2.9. basics of drawing;
    2.10. land vehicle design and construction;
    2.11. technical mechanics;
    2.12. the maintenance materials necessary for vehicle body repair;
    2.13. work with containers in restricted visibility conditions,restricted transfer conditions, increased fire hazard conditions;
    2.14. basics of communication;
    2.15. information obtaining methods;
    2.16. professional terminology in the state language and in one foreign language.
    3. The knowledge necessary at the level of use to perform the basic tasks of professional activity:
    3.1. vehicle body repair technologies;
    3.2. technical measurements;
    3.3. basics of locksmith’s work;
    3.4. information literacy (information technologies);
    3.5. dimension chains;
    3.6. arc welding;
    3.7. gas welding;
    3.8. contact welding;
    3.9. labour protection (equipment for the work place protection; work safety signs and signals, individual and collective protection means and their use, work safety requirements in work with tools and equipment);
    3.10. electrical safety rules;
    3.11. fire safety rules, action in case of fire;
    3.12. provision of the first aid;  
    3.13. environmental protection;
    3.14. basic professional and general ethical principles;
    3.15. legal employment regulations
    3.16. state language;
    3.17. one foreign language at the level of communication.

  • Skills

    1. To read and understand technical documentation, use the obtained information in the work process.
    2. To evaluate the vehicle body deformations and their deformed parts visually.
    3. To make geometry control measurements of vehicle body design.
    4. To choose the most appropriate technological solution for performance of the vehicle body repair works.
    5. To use vehicle body repair technologies set by manufacturers.
    6. By assessing visually and using measuring devices to justify which parts, junctions or units need dismantling, replacement or repair.
    7. To read the work task and created cost estimate.
    8. To assess the vehicle body repair costs and labour capacity.
    9. To prepare the work place according to the requirements and instructions for the use of equipment.
    10. To read instruction of use of equipment and tools.
    11. To use electronic information sources and technical literature.
    12. To prepare auxiliary equipment according to the instructions of the used equipment.
    13. To arrange the work place according to the internal regulations of the company.
    14. To perform maintenance of the equipment and tools according to the instructions of use.
    15. To use mechanical, electronical and laser measuring devices.
    16. To se locksmith’s hand tools, pneumatic and electric hand tools.
    17. To use the materials suitable for the vehicle repair technology.
    17. To use masking materials
    19. To tin and fill surfaces.
    20. To restore deformed surfaces by pulling.
    21. To use bonding technologies.
    22. To use welding technologies (gas welding, arc welding, contact-welding)
    23. To se surface deformation detection tools.
    24. To understand and observe the requirements of the environmental protection regulations.
    25. To understand and observe the labour protection legislative and regulatory requirements, i.e. working in high risk conditions.
    26. To recognise safety signs and observe them.
    27. To observe electrical and fire safety regulations.
    28. To use equipment and machine protective equipment.
    29. To check conformity of tools and equipment with the labour protection laws and regulations.
    30. To use individual and collective work protection means.
    31. To provide the first aid.
    32. To use professional terminology in the state language and in one foreign language.
    33. To cquire the KNOWLEDGE necessary for development of the professional qualification, follow information on latest tendencies in vehicle body technologies.
    34. To participate in labour protection training (instructing) and have mandatory health check on time.
    35. To cooperate with other employees, working in a team and observing the professional and general ethical principles and rules of procedure within the framework of the task.
    36. To perform the work tasks without doing harm to the own or other people’s health.
    37. To recognise the risks of the working environment and take all the necessary measures to reduce the impact.
    38. To have a good command of the state language.
    39. To have a good command of one foreign language at the communication level.
    40. To perform the work independently and take responsibility for the work results.
    41.    To observe the legalemployment regulations.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    1. Ability to determine the necessary vehicle repair works for the vehicle and plan them according to the manufacturers’ repair technology.
    2. Ability to determine vehicle body repair costs and assess the economic justification of the repair works.
    3. Ability to prepare the work space for performance the vehicle body repair works.
    4. Ability to assess and measure the vehicle body deformation size and amount, plan the work sequence of deformation prevention, as well as the necessary technology.
    5. Ability to do the necessary dismantling and assembly of the necessary vehicle body parts, as well to do anti-corrosion treatment.
    6. Ability to restore the surface of the damaged vehicle body parts by using the body repair stand,using locksmith’s hand tools and repair technologies of tinning and filling;
    7. Ability to use welding technologies in the vehicle body repair works (gas welding, arc welding, contact welding).
    8. Ability to control the work quality, by making measurements and visual evaluation.
    9. Ability to comply with the labour protection legislative and regulatory requirements, check and use locksmith’s tools and equipment, work clothes, individual and collective protection means according to the requirements of the labour protection laws and regulations.
    10. Ability to provide the first aid.
    11. Ability to comply with the environmental protection regulations.
    12. Ability to use professional terminology in the state and one foreign language.
    13. Ability to develop professionally and to follow the latest technologies in the field of vehicle body repair work.
    14. Ability to work in a team by observing the professional and general ethical principles.
    15. Ability to plan and organise own work and be responsible for the  work result.
    16. Ability to comply with the legal employment regulations.
    17. Ability to communicate in the state language and one foreign language.

Qualification acquisition requirements

Previous education
Certificate of general basic education
Ways to acquire 
Qualifications can be acquired in the framework of education programs or in the evaluation and recognition of non-formal knowledge, skills and competences acquired (in vocational education LKI Levels 2-4).
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Formal (through education programmes)
ECTS credit points 
The unit of the volume of Latvian higher education studies - 1 credit point corresponds to one week of study work in full-time studies (40 credit points per study year).

1 The credit point of Latvia corresponds to 1,5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credit point.
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Duration of study 
Duration of qualification in full-time studies
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4 years

Qualification document

Awarding body

Vocational basic and secondary education institution

Type of awarding bodies:

- Rīgas Valsts tehnikums

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Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification

Latvia has a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.


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Qualification field, stage and type

Thematic field (ISCED 2013)
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) developed by UNESCO.
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Engineering and engineering trades (071)

Detailed field: (ISCED 2013)

Motor vehicles, ships and aircraft (0716)

Education
Stages of Latvian education system included in the LQF:
- basic education
- secondary education
- higher education
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Secondary education

Qualification type
ITypes of Latvian education:
-General education
-Professional education
-Academic education
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Vocational

Full or partial

Full qualification

Other information

National Education Information System

National Database of Education Opportunities

Active qualification

Last changes: 11.10.2023

Posted: 07.05.2016